Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity

by Robert D. Bullard

Book Overview

The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low- and moderate-income families in existing neighborhoods, or transportation policies that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262524708
• ISBN13: 9780262524704
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher